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Hamlet at A.C.T. Encore Arts San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO’S PREMIER NONPROFIT THEATER COMPANY SEP–OCT 2017 SEASON 51, ISSUE 1 EXPERIENCE, DEDICATION, RESULTS. Simply the Best! 415.345.3022 | [email protected] www.NinaHatvany.com | License # 01152226 PARTNERED WITH NATALIE, VANESSA AND PAUL HATVANY KITCHEN 3500 Jackson Street,San Francisco 7 BR | 6.5 BA | Spectacular Bay views | Offered at $16,000,000 This magnificent home has spectacular Bay views from every level. It is a stunning example of Bernard Maybeck’s architectural work, with extraordinary entertaining spaces, particularly a Great Room with 20’ ceilings opening into a formal dining room. There is a library and a study as well as 3 family rooms, 2 terraces and multi-car parking in the garage and driveway. The kitchen has been modernized with white cabinets and sleek stainless appliances. A wine cellar and storage area complete the amenities. 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All rights reserved. ©2017 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 4 ACT-SF.ORG SAN FRANCISCO'S THEATER COMPANY American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco’s Tony Award– A.C.T.’s 50-year-old Conservatory, led by Melissa Smith, is winning nonprofit theater, nurtures the art of live theater at the center of our work. Our three-year, fully accredited through dynamic productions, intensive actor training, Master of Fine Arts Program is at the forefront of America’s and ongoing engagement with our community. Under the actor training programs. Meanwhile, our intensive Summer leadership of Artistic Director Carey Perloff and Executive Training Congress attracts students from around the world, Director Peter Pastreich, we embrace our responsibility to and the San Francisco Semester offers a unique study-abroad conserve, renew, and reinvent our rich theatrical traditions opportunity for undergraduates. Other programs include the and literatures, while exploring new artistic forms and world-famous Young Conservatory for students ages 8 to new communities. Founded by William Ball, a pioneer of 19; Studio A.C.T., our expansive course of theater study for the regional theater movement, A.C.T. opened its first San adults; and the Professional Development Training Program, Francisco season in 1967. We have since performed more than which offers actor training for companies seeking to elevate 350 productions to a combined audience of more than seven their employees’ business performance skills. Our alumni million people. Every year we reach more than 250,000 people often grace our mainstage and perform around the Bay through our productions and programs. Area, as well as on stages and screens across the country. Rising from the wreckage of the earthquake and fire of 1906 A.C.T. also brings the benefits of theater-based arts education and hailed as the “perfect playhouse,” the beautiful, historic to more than 16,000 Bay Area students and educators each Geary Theater has been our home since the beginning. When year. Central to our ACTsmart education programs, run by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ripped the roof apart, San Director of Education & Community Programs Elizabeth Franciscans rallied together to raise a record-breaking $30 Brodersen, is the longstanding Student Matinee (SMAT) million to rebuild the theater. The Geary reopened in 1996 with program, which has brought hundreds of thousands of young a production of The Tempest directed by Perloff, who took over people to A.C.T. performances since 1968. We also provide in 1992 after the retirement of A.C.T.’s second artistic director, touring Will on Wheels Shakespeare productions, teaching- gentleman artist Ed Hastings. artist residencies, in-school workshops, and study materials to Bay Area schools and community-based organizations. Perloff’s 25-season tenure has been marked by groundbreaking productions of classical works and new translations creatively With our increased presence in the Central Market neighborhood colliding with exceptional contemporary theater; cross- marked by the renovation of The Strand Theater and the disciplinary performances and international collaborations; opening of The Costume Shop Theater, A.C.T. plays a leadership and theater made by, for, and about the Bay Area. Her fierce role in securing the future of theater for San Francisco and commitment to audience engagement ushered in a new era the nation. of InterACT events and dramaturgical publications, inviting everyone to explore what goes on behind the scenes. American Conservatory Theater Board of Trustees (As of September 2017) The Board of Directors of the M.F.A. Program Kirke M. Hasson Ray Apple Peter Pastreich Joan Danforth CHAIR Lesley Ann Clement Carey Perloff Dagmar Dolby Abby Sadin Schnair Kay Yun Richard T. Davis-Lowell Robina Riccitiello William Draper III CHAIR PRESIDENT Jerome L. Dodson Sally Rosenblatt John Goldman Michael G. Dovey Rusty Rueff Kaatri Grigg Sara Barnes Nancy Livingston IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR Olympia Dukakis Abby Sadin Schnair James Haire Carlotta Dathe Sarah M. Earley Lori Halverson Schryer Kent Harvey Frannie Fleishhacker Celeste Ford Frannie Fleishhacker Jeff Spears Sue Yung Li Arnie Glassberg VICE CHAIR Ken Fulk Robert Tandler Christine Mattison Christopher Hollenbeck Priscilla Geeslin Dianne Hoge Patrick S. Thompson Joan McGrath Luba Kipnis VICE CHAIR Jo S. Hurley Joaquin Torres Deedee McMurtry Linda Kurtz David Riemer Jeri Lynn Johnson Jeff Ubben Mary S. Metz Jennifer Lindsay VICE CHAIR Alan Jones Adriana Lopez Vermut Toni Rembe Joseph Ratner Steven L. Swig Jascha Kaykas-Wolff Susy Wadsworth Cherie Sorokin Toni Ratner Miller VICE CHAIR James H. Levy Nola Yee Alan L. Stein Toni Rembe Heather Stallings Little Barry Lawson Williams Sally Rosenblatt Linda Jo Fitz TREASURER Janet V. Lustgarten EMERITUS Carlie Wilmans Anne Shonk Jamie Martin ADVISORY BOARD Melissa Smith Daniel E. Cohn Jeffrey S. Minick Barbara Bass Bakar Patrick S. Thompson SECRETARY Michael P. Nguyen Rena Bransten Alan L. Stein Martim Oliveira Jack Cortis CHAIR EMERITUS American Conservatory Theater was founded in 1965 by William Ball. Edward Hastings, Artistic Director 1986–92 415.749.2228 5 Although Small Mouth Sounds made a lot of noise when it premiered in New York, this crowd-pleasing comedy started life at a visit to a silent retreat. “I didn’t know what I was getting myself into,” playwright Bess Wohl says. “I didn’t even realize that we were going to be in silence!” But while the Drama Desk Award–winning playwright was out of her comfort zone, the experience inspired the idea for a story. Wohl’s play follows six disparate souls who arrive for a silent retreat in search of answers from an unseen guru. They’re supposed to be quiet, to allow their minds to clear and the meditation to open up their souls, but silence and real life aren’t always in harmony. BY BESS WOHL DIRECTED BY RACHEL CHAVKIN BEGINS OCT 11 A.C.T.’S STRAND THEATER ACT-SF.ORG | 415.749.2228 “I was drawn to the funny and frustrating Small Mouth Sounds combines the miscommunications that happen in comedy of flawed humans looking for enforced silence,” says Wohl.
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